[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hoyt wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Civileme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 1:34 AM
> > Subject: [expert] RIGHT CLICK--NEW -> Folder
> >
> > >
> > > Are you folks who are complaining running as _root_?
> > >
> > > This is something not to be done, for many reasons, including the fact
> > that you
> > > get kicked from most IRC servers.
> > >
> >
> > I find it arrogant that Mandrake would deliberatly cripple the functionality
> > of programs in order to prohibit certain behavior that they have decided is
> > inappropriate. This kind of "I know better than you" unwelcomed
> > paternalistic coercion is awfully Microsoft-ish. Is this the direction
> > Mandrake is heading? Yuck!
> >
> > Hoyt
>
> Hear! Hear!! ... One of the several reasons I switched from Mandrake to
> SuSE!!!.
Sorry, not to be rude ( honestly I mean that ), but if you knew enough of what
you were doing to safely run as root, this 'disabilities' wouldn't cause a
problem.
Sean Middleditch
> simon
